Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-03-25


been weighed in the balance and
found wanting. 1t is his own fault
If he had been willing to be meas
ured in the outset by the mora
stand of the company he keeps,
less would have been expected OF
him and the disappointment would
have been correspondingly less. In
this case there would have been
practically no disappointment. But
If men will climb high, they must
expect to fall hard.
Buffalo Courier (Dem.)
At the end of Its second year the
Administration of President Cleve
land IS stronger in the confidence
and respect of the people than il
has been at any time since the
memorable 4th of March, 1885. II
it did not merit the increased con.
fidence, the Administration would
not have it.
Wheeling Register (Dem)
President Cleveland has done
great things IN the past two years.
IL wouldn't surprise us a bit if he
is considered a necessity by the
year 1888, and is asked to occupy
the Presidential chair for four
years longer.
Philadelphia Press (Rep.)
The process Of disintegration
appears to be setting in upon Mr..
Cleveland's Administration, but il
remains to be seen whether he will
merely repair or tear it down and
build anew. AS an effort to apply
the crazy.quilt theory to states
manship the present Cabinet is a
creditable and unique success, but
its value as an agency of executive
administration is not great enough
to warrant its preservation. Mr..
Cleveland should tear down the
whole structure and try his hand
again.
Our little twO-year.old admins.
tration will he good enough to ac-
cept the assurances Of our dis.
consideration. We're
It's intellectual reach as vast as its
accumulated adipOse tissue-which
it isn't by long shOt-we should
suspect it of genuine greatness.
Minneapolis Journal Qnd.)
The campaign of 1881 was fought
upon sharply defined issues-upon
a radical change of men and meas
ures and policy. That the De.
mocracy has thus far done nothing
to indicate a change in anything
but a change of experienced men
for inexperienced is compliment
to the capability and honesty of its
predecessor quite as striking az is
the implied confession of its own
incapablity to improve on what
went before it.
Galveston News DEM
AS a man becoming apparently
more and more, in relation to pub
lie affairs and practical politics, a
sort of personlfied conscience of
the country, the NerS has been
disposed to regard Mr.. Cleveland
as a necessity for denomination by
the Democratic party, if the man
ayers of the nominating machinery
IN the party do not prefer to orga.
nize defeat for their ticket rather
than put such man at the head of
it. That is all.
Philadelphia Telegraph (Ind.)
The Administration should be
considered, not from any contract
ed partisan point of view, but from
the broad and generous one of
complete justice and fairness
Considered in that waY, it will. we
think, be conceded to have been
thus far very good one as adj
ministrations go.
Memphis Avalanche (Dem.)
Spite of all adverse criticism, the
country will go on praising the
bridge that brings it safely over
1t is a noble spectacle, that Of one
man who stands like a solid rock
for the right, in the middle of the
cataract, while the angry waves Of
faction are surglng and fOaming all
around him.
Keene, N. H., Republican (Dem.)
What the future may have in
store, no man may say; but Mr..
Cleveland has only to continue as
he has begun to make himself one
of the best Presidents the country
has had. More than this, he had
already made his nomination an
essential for Democratic success in
1888.
Chicago Times (Ind)
A Republican paper says "There
is every reason to expect that the
next two years of Cleveland's adj
will be worse than the
last twop-an admission rather
discouraging for Republicans, for
whom the first two years have
been bad enough.
Troy Telegram (Rep.)
Senator Edmunds says larger
portion of Mr.. Cleveland's APP.
pOintees have been "either incOm-
petent or improper persons, or be.
ing competent have been rascals.n
That Is terse and to the pOint-but
Il is a pretty bad showing for a re.
form Administration.
indianapolis Journal (Rep.)
The first two years of Democratic
Administration have been a very
dismal failure, II would be difli.
cult to find their parallel without
waiting two years longer, There